New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-26
HOME FROM BOLIVId.
RETURN OF THE AMERICAN MINISTER.
WHAT ExJuDeE sEAY SAYS ABOUT THE INST

RETURN OF THE AMERICAN MINISTER.
WHAT Ex,JUDGE sEAY SAYS ABOUT THE INsrI-
TUTIoNs. CLIMATE AND PEOPLE
Eek Judge william A. Seay. who has been United States
Minister Bolivia since the Cleveland Administration
went into Office but whose resignation on account OF III
health has aoceptedarrv at NewYork yesterday
the Pacific Mail steamer City Of Para, on his way
home to Louisiana.
"Yes I'm going home for good" he said to TRIBUNE
reporter who called on him at the Grand Union Hotel
couldn't stand the climate. 1t nearly killed me- La
Paz. the administrative capital, is frigd region In the
torrd There Is not day in the year there that
fire would not be comfortable yet they have no fire
they have neither wood coaand the little fuel they
for cooking supplied by the Lama their beast OF
burden"
How do Bolivian institutions compare with ours y
"Their institutions all based on the republican
institutions of America 1t sconsidered high compl-
by any of those little republics to be called like the
United States The consequence s that the social rea
tons OF the United States Minister with his diplomatic
colleagues always very pleasant"
As comm ercial country. how does II ranki"
well 1t 10 not q commercial country. They have no
trade with the United States; but they trade with
Britain Germany and France in silver and other min
erals In COCA, and coffee to q limited extent The
people derive their income from the mines and from
coca. principally from the mines The income OF the
Government is obtained from the tariff"
"Have they high tariff -
EYES, quite high; things high Is the
United States have and others not SO high. They
have large free list ihe Of their trade with
Britain. Germany and France is that the merchants OF
these countries give better terms than the merchants OF
the States They allow longer credit and their freight
rates. account OF want Of ship lines are much
cheaper than ours. They have drummers there from
London and Paris Just we have In Louisiana from
New.Yor and Chicago"
"Are the politicians protectiouist rs a rule 7"
"Not altogether. The tariff Is not for protection. you
Know. but for revenue. They have duty, though q
small one, on exports as well as imports'
do politics run high T.
"There are two three political parties. and these
cause very exciting times at the elections every four
years Indeed the elections sometimes lead to rovolu
tons; but these revolutions are not very serious
Generally when party leader whips he goes into
office and takes his friends with him. and kicks the
others out without much ceremony sometimes enforcing
their eviction by q guard OF soldiers. But rule
there is much blood she'd You know they have had
very hot fighting of late years in their with Chill
when they were defeated and all their iitiora posses
sions Ia FROM them, making them an exclusively In
ternai republic without maritime commerce"
0f what GLASSES and races are the Inhabitants mainly
There are few Of European descent; and they
the leading and the mon'yed classes. They are very
tifu and dress in the tip top the Partisan fashion
The Indians the lsborng classes and the estizos
penters and forth The Indians often give themselves
beastly ntoxtcation and the morals or the Mes
tizos not what they might he.
Are the people ell-oducated y
schools both state supported and supported by the
tablished church. which is Roman Catholic
stories that come to us OF wonderful virtues true r.
"Oh The coca Is little tree ten To nfteen feet In
OF aika noticed that the Indians without IT,
and 1t sometimes enables them to do without food Tor
about it is true II had no effect upon me; but suppose
that was because took 1t without the alkali"
Are the natural features and natural phenomena
Of the country such TO make 1t pleasant place OF
residence e.
that you got all degrees OF beat and cold the noun
tans IL is srctic you dow into tho valleys 1t is
products are a. varied as the Innate from barley,
which does not mature on the mountains. to coffee
Of ours June July. and August In these months II
sometimes SHOWS at La psi to the depth Of eight Inches
snow or these sorsta 10 $4,000 feet above the sea
level and Illiawaui 22000 Lake Ttkaka In the bosom
OF tho mountains the most remarkable Body Of fresh
water in the world II 500 feet above the level of
the sea- and forty times az large as the Lake o. Geneva
evan the natural curIosftfes OF hf gdD5aU9a man
twnes up the level OF the sea along the :ds OF ,he
moansin somewhat like an old Virginia stil worm THIS
railroad is OF the Peruvian railroads N ' 10
whion the head Is tho firm Of which William r Grace 4
%1' s aS OF the pSp"
ton i've the country is thought to be healthfu nave
not found i .s TIE ss %aGs
orsat a height ia dstressingly painful and ! think
dangerous I was drawn to the point OF death by ~
mora than once and led 10 leave az absence last
year aud final resi- ynston this year.
" And what 10 itP ,,o,, 4.
Lot me stick your head under that pillow ana hoa
nm occesiopaly 10 allow you TO gasp-then your
hs We got saroche mile aud get out OF breath
ana Won will know the feeling II produccs.'
IL the Bolivian press nourshngf
They have four nye daily papers at La Paz' ana
quite sprtghtly ones" -,
"a What OF the future of the country T. 49,.
Bolivia present is weak: but has ptrhapsa iu,uro
before IT, with skfu polite government and an sanet
enoe To tho principles peace Between Chill and the
Argentine Republic however the hegemony OF ho south
Amencan republics lies Both OF them are making rapio
strides In all that tends TO greatness